Steinberg Nuendo Expansion Kit User Manual

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Editing drums
ÖAll settings in a drum map (except the Pitch) can be 
changed directly in the drum sound list or in the Drum 
Map Setup dialog (see “The Drum Map Setup dialog” on 
page 52).
Note that the changes you make will affect all tracks that use the drum 
map.
About Pitch, I-note and O-note
This can be a somewhat confusing area, but once you’ve 
grasped how it all works it’s not very complicated. Going 
through the following “theory” will help you make the most 
out of the drum map concept –...

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The channel and output settings
You can set separate MIDI channels and/or MIDI outputs 
for each sound in a drum map. The following rules apply:
When a drum map is selected for a track, the MIDI chan-
nel settings in the drum map override the MIDI channel set-
ting for the track.
In other words, the MIDI channel setting you make in the Track list or In-
spector for the track is normally disregarded. If you want a drum sound to 
use the channel of the track, set it to channel “Any” in the...

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Open the Functions pop-up menu in the top left corner to 
open a list of available functionalities:
ÖDrum maps are saved with the project files. If you have 
created or modified a drum map, you should use the Save 
function to store it as a separate XML file, available for 
loading into other projects.
If you always want to have the same drum map(s) included in your projects, 
you may want to load these into the template – see the chapter “File Han-
dling” in the Nuendo Operation...

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How the Score Editor works 

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How the Score Editor works
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
 How the Score Editor and MIDI data relate.
 What display quantize is and how it works.
Welcome!
Welcome to scoring in Nuendo! The Score Editor has 
been created to allow you to get any possible piece of 
music displayed as a score, complete with all the neces-
sary symbols and formatting. It allows you to extract parts 
out of a full orchestra score, to add lyrics and comments, 
create lead sheets, score for drums, create...

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Display quantize
Let’s say you used the Project window to record a figure 
with some staccato eighth notes. When you open the 
Score Editor, these notes are displayed like this:
This doesn’t look anything like what you intended. Let’s 
start with the timing – obviously, you were off at a couple 
of places (the third, fourth and last note all seem to be a 
32nd note late). You can solve this by quantizing the fig-
ure, but this would make the passage sound too “stiff”, and...

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How the Score Editor works
like above. But again, please note that when you hit Play, 
the passage will still play as it originally did. The display 
quantize setting only affects the score image of the re-
cording. One last important note:
Using Rests display quantize
Above we used display quantize for notes. There is a sim-
ilar setting called “Rests” display quantize which is used 
to set the smallest rest to be displayed. Often, this setting 
is very effective:
Let’s start with the following note...

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Permanent alteration of MIDI data
As a last resort, you can resize, quantize or move the ac-
tual note events. However, this would result in the music 
not playing back like it originally did. Often it is possible to 
get the score to look the way you want without altering any 
MIDI data.
Summary
This closes our discussion on the basic concept of display 
quantizing. There are a number of other special situations 
which require more advanced techniques, which you will 
find...

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The basics 

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The basics
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
 How to open the Score Editor.
 How to switch between Page Mode and Edit Mode.
 How to set up the page size and margins.
 How to hide and show the symbol Inspector, the toolbar and 
the extended toolbar.
 How to set up the ruler.
 How to set a zoom factor.
 How to make initial settings for key, clef and time signature.
Preparations
1.In the Project window, create a MIDI track for each in-
strument.
You can prepare a piano (split) staff from...